Where does “creatuur” come from?
creatuur (Dutch) comes from Middle Dutch creature, from Latin creātūra, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
creatuur (Dutch): creature; monster, monstrous or loathsome...
Definitions
- creature; monster, monstrous or loathsome...
Ancestry of “creatuur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Dutch | creature | creature, being |
| 2 | Latin | creātūra | a created thing; creature |
| 3 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |